Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, speaks at a press convention in Beijing, March 25, 2026. /VCG
A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Wednesday condemned Taiwan chief Lai Ching-te for his current remarks that whitewashed and advocated Japan’s colonial rule over Taiwan, calling such statements “a betrayal of the nation.”
Zhu Fenglian, a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, made the feedback in response to a media inquiry.
Lai not too long ago advocated the infamous notion of the so-called Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, an idea superior by militarist Japan throughout World War II to whitewash and justify its aggression and colonial crimes throughout Asia.
These remarks have sparked an outcry on the island, with consultants and students condemning him for distorting historical past for partisan and private acquire and glossing over Japan’s bloodbath and different colonial atrocities in Taiwan.
Zhu mentioned that whitewashing Japan’s wartime crimes constitutes a distortion of historical past and a desecration of those that fought and sacrificed their lives within the Chinese People’s War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, whereas additionally exposing Lai’s underlying agenda of looking for “Taiwan independence.”
Noting that Japan’s invasion and colonial rule in Taiwan is “the darkest chapter in the island’s history,” Zhu mentioned that in that interval, the Japanese aggressors brutally suppressed the native inhabitants and plundered Taiwan’s assets, inflicting profound struggling on the island and upsetting robust resistance from native folks.
She mentioned any try and justify or overturn the decision on colonial crimes won’t ever be tolerated, and any exterior interference within the Taiwan query won’t ever be allowed.
The spokesperson referred to as on compatriots on either side of the Taiwan Strait to affix arms in opposing “Taiwan independence” and exterior interference.
Source: CGTN